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3 days ago | 
falmouthpacket.co.uk | Emma Ferguson |Kate Lockett
48 1/1 A golden glow shone over the Evening Dance on Flora Day, when the first dancers of the day returned to finish off the event in style. The warm evening sunshine kept the crowds in Helston for the start of the dance at 5pm. It was led by the same four dancers as the Morning Dance, first leads Ben Head and Natalie Bunt, followed by Ben Autie and Caroline Spencer as second leads.
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4 days ago | 
falmouthpacket.co.uk | Emma Ferguson |Kate Lockett
48 1/1 Amongst all the festivities on Flora Day is an event that has its origins actually go back even further than the dancing. The Hal-an-Tow is filled with music and noise, to ward away bad spirits and the darkness of winter. There is some suggestion the tunes goes back as far as the 1600s, although the first earliest record of it is from 1802, in Edward Jones's 1802 account of Flora Day.
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4 days ago | 
falmouthpacket.co.uk | Emma Ferguson |Kate Lockett
57 1/1 At the heart of every Flora Day are a group of musicians without whom the day would simply not go ahead: Helston Town Band. Together with members of Helston Flora Day Association, the band play a vital role in putting on the event. Just as Association members dedicate hours of their free time in the run up to Flora Day, band members are busy practising and training up the younger players.
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4 days ago | 
falmouthpacket.co.uk | Emma Ferguson |Kate Lockett
49 1/1 Here is third and final part of our Helston Flora Day Children's Dance 2025 photo galleries.
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4 days ago | 
falmouthpacket.co.uk | Emma Ferguson |Kate Lockett
57 1/1 Here is part two of three of our galleries featuring our Helston Flora Day Children's Dance 2025 photos.
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5 days ago | 
falmouthpacket.co.uk | Emma Ferguson |Kate Lockett
57 1/1 A procession of white wound its way around the streets of Helston on Thursday for the Children’s Dance on Flora Day. The longest dance of the day, it featured more than 1,000 children from the town’s three primary schools and secondary school: Nansloe Academy, Parc Eglos, St Michael’s and Helston Community College. This year the dance returned to its traditional start time of 10am, starting as always in Wendron Street.
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5 days ago | 
falmouthpacket.co.uk | Kate Lockett
Police have launched an investigation into a fire at a former nursing home in Cornwall (Image: Supplied) An investigation into a fire at a former nursing home in Cornwall has been launched. Last month, the Packet reported that firefighters from Helston and Tolvaddon were called to a fire at Trengrouse Nursing Home on Trengrouse Way in Helston on Wednesday, April 30. At the time, crews confirmed that one room was well alight, and an axe was used to gain entry to the room.
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5 days ago | 
falmouthpacket.co.uk | Kate Lockett
This Cornish seaside town is one of five that have recently been named among the best in the UK (Image: Boris Stroujko / Getty Images) Five Cornish seaside towns have been celebrated among the UK's finest by the esteemed travel magazine, Condé Nast Traveller.
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5 days ago | 
falmouthpacket.co.uk | Emma Ferguson |Kate Lockett
57 1/1 Here is the second part of our Helston Flora Day Morning Dance 2025 gallery of photos. Part one, which includes a write-up of the dance, can be found here: Helston Flora Day Midday Dance gallery - PART 1 See more photos from the Packet picture gallery part 2 at the top of the page.
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5 days ago | 
falmouthpacket.co.uk | Emma Ferguson |Kate Lockett
57 1/1 The colourful dresses were as bright as the sunshine in the blue sky above when this year’s Midday Dance took place at Helston Flora Day yesterday (Thursday). It led to a warm couple of hours for the 182 couples taking part in the Ancient Furry Dance, which is always the busiest of the day for crowds.
